What could a community internet look like if only sustained by renewable energy sources?
This project is at the intersection of speculative fiction and research that aims to raise awareness and call for action on the environmental impact of global internet systems as well as to provide a political platform to address the entangled social and environmental harms of the internet.
[LINK TO ARTICLE] "Mass Canadian Internet Outage Caused by Single Destructive Beaver" June 14, 2022
What do community internets look like? [LINK TO PAGE]
What are the energy impacts of the internet and the digital infrastructures that support it?
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What can sustainability mean?
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What policy is needed? (political platform)
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How could the internet look different?
(speculative digital platform)
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How does the internet work?
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“All across our planet crucial connections are being disrupted. The stability that we and all life relies upon is being lost. What we do in the next 20 years will determine the future for all life on Earth.”
[source: Our Planet S1E2, 2019]
[LINK TO ARTICLE] "A lone undersea internet cable connected Tonga to the world — a volcanic eruption broke it"
January 19, 2022
Last updated: June 23, 2022
Platform Potentials Project by Alexandria
UAL Creative Computing Institute
MA Internet Equalities
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[LINK TO ARTICLE] "Clean energy’s dirty little secret on wind turbines: Built to withstand hurricane-force winds, turbine blades are not easily crushed, recycled or repurposed" February 13, 2020